Add/Update Information: Sahib Haddad - Editor

A film director and editor, born in Baghdad in 1939. At the age of 13, he joined the Brothers of Acting and Cinema Troupe as an actor. He enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts, and acted and worked as an assistant director in the movie Bride of the Euphrates (1958). He joined the Modern Theater Troupe and the Free Theater Troupe. He turned to the cinema after traveling to Hungary to study editing, after which he returned to Iraq and aspired to establish a film production company and direct a film. He traveled to Beirut and stayed for more than 12 years, and there, he edited over 25 Lebanese, Egyptian, Syrian and Iraqi films, such as Room No. 7, Non-Carnivorous Wolves, and My Hippy Wife. He won an award for his work on director Youssef Chahine's The Seller of Rings. He worked as an editor of Iraqi feature films, including The River (1978), for which he won an award, and Two Faces in The Picture (1989). He made his directorial debut in Another Day (1979), then directed his second movie, Motaw'ie and Bahiya (1982), which starred several Egyptian actors, including Karam Metawea, and Soheir El Morshedi, and won an award at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The film won the Carlo Vivari Prize. He died on December 18, 1994. A documentary film was made about his life entitled The Cinema Lover, directed by Khairya Al-Mansour.